# Messed-up movie titles - a game **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 16, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054 "2003-01-16T20:50:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Consuela\_Bobuela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Consuela\_Bobuela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Consuela_Bobuela)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/61 "2003-01-17T22:46:29Z")
The Sound of Muzak: An Austrian family hides in an elevator to escape evil nazi’s. The Lavender Hillbilly Mob: A bunch of gay southern guys rob a bank. EST of Eden: Werner Erhard helps angry twin brothers “rewire their conciousness”. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/62 "2003-01-17T22:47:28Z")
**A Fist Full of Kleenex** : Clint Eastwood proves that real men can cry. **Men in Black Tights** : The story of J. Edgar Hoover’s battles against an Alien Invasion. Cheers, Keithy ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/63 "2003-01-17T23:08:25Z")
**The Frying Game:** Saute at your own risk. **Widows Peek:** Lonely women become peeping toms. A sad tale. **The Bunt for Reds October:** A suicide squeeze will decide if the Cincinnati baseball team makes the postseason. **Tara! Tara! Tara!:** The story of **Gone With the Wind** from the planation’s perspective. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/64 "2003-01-17T23:15:03Z")
**Raiders of the Lost Pork** : Indiana Jones races Nazis to find a sacred pig. **The Saltines Falcon** : Boy pursues dream to get into Guiness Book of Records by building the world’s largest bird statue out of crackers. **Saving Meg Ryan** : Meg quits her acting jobs and joins a convent. **The Little Barmaid** : Ariel works in a saloon, but dreams of meeting a prince. ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/65 "2003-01-18T01:32:07Z")
**Tales From The Cryptographer** : Beware the coming of the Sunday Jumble! **I Spit On Your Grove** : The tale of a woman, bent on revenge against the savages who cut down her favorite tree. **Band of the Hand of Brothers** : Five troubled youths get one last chance, restoring a dilapidated brownstone on the beach at Normandy. **Sedentary Man** : A mortician’s solitary battle against the undead, and hemmarhoids. **Return of the Red-Eye** : The tale of a late night flight, full of rowdy and obnoxious passengers. No one will be seated during the excruciating, “I’ll turn this plane around **RIGHT NOW** if you don’t siddown back there!” sequence. [sub]Help me, I can’t stop…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/66 "2003-01-18T02:23:17Z")
**Been Her** – the story of a crossdresser **The Dessert Rats** – In this sequel to all-time favorite war movie **The Dessert Fox** , A British commando takes charge of a defiant, vastly outnumbered Australian division in their heroic search for Pie…or cake. **The Charge of the Blight Brigade** – “Ours is not to wonder why… our is to spread syphilis… and the clap.” ---
**Author:** ![GorillaGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8491ac/32.png) [@GorillaGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaGirl)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/67 "2003-01-18T02:54:36Z")
**Silence of the Limbs:** A documentary to answer the question - if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there, does it make a sound? **Lawrence of Aruba:** T. E. Lawrence goes to the island and writes a history of the Netherlands. ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/68 "2003-01-18T04:46:55Z")
**101 Gyrations** : Demi Moore stars in this sequel to “Striptease”. **Inspector Midget** : Emmanuel Lewis gives a brilliant performance as the bionic police inspector who gets the lowdown on bad guys. **A Bug’s Wife** : 1995 documentary about the life of Mrs. Jiminy Cricket, and how she dealt with the struggles of her alcoholic and abusive husband. **Spinderella** : The life and times of White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. Previously released in the U.S. as “True Lies”. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/69 "2003-01-18T05:36:38Z")
**About A NoClueBoy** Prolific Doper trounces Hugh Grant in a matter of seconds **Toad to Perdition** Amphibian gains ability to use a gun to destroy predators and rival toads ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/70 "2003-01-18T06:17:02Z")
**The Princess Broad** : Westley fights to rescue his larger than life love. **The Sex Sense** : I see horny people. They walk around just like everybody else. **There’s Something About Dairy** : Heartwarming story about a man who loves his milk. **Chicken Hun** : Claymation story about Attilla’s lesser known cowardly cousin, Yella. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/71 "2003-01-18T13:02:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gonzoron \* > \*\ ***The Blix Sense** : “I see dead warheads.” \*\* Funny!!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/72 "2003-01-18T16:02:54Z")
Since Doper names are turning into a trend here… **Idle Handy** : The tale of a Doper with time to kill, a posessed keyboard, and the evil that results. **Monstre’s Sink** : One Doper, armed only with a plunger, takes on a nightmare of a clog. **Chaka Zimbu** : An American Doper in Africa playing as a double feature with **An American Wilson in London** : In the grand tradition of Chevy Chase **DeadlyAccurate Reckoning** : The insightful thinking of a Doper saves the day! playing as a double feature with **Throatshot In The Dark** : The exciting prequel! **silence of the lieu** : A great comedic talent is stricken with laryngitis. Will the SDMB recover? ---
**Author:** ![Homer\_J](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c37758/32.png) [@Homer\_J](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer_J)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/73 "2003-01-18T16:27:07Z")
Dial P for Pizza - Hitchcock becomes less paranoid of the phone and learns the joy of delievery pizza! ---
**Author:** ![TwungTister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TwungTister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwungTister)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/74 "2003-01-18T19:24:18Z")
**Cinnamon Paradiso** the life of Julia Child _Jurassic Pork_ was already done on a Funniest Home Videos or Funniest People show. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8491ac/32.png) [@GorillaGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaGirl)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/75 "2003-01-19T00:48:35Z")
**The Withered of Oz:** Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman and the Cowardly Lion move into a retirement home. **Titus Androgynous:** A Roman general kills his rival’s two sons (or were they daughters?) and serves them in a pie for their mother (or was it their father?) ---
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/76 "2003-01-19T06:29:16Z")
_Vanilla-Chocolate-Strawberry Sky_: A rich man doubts the nature of reality after a tragic ice cream headache _Suburban Legend_: No one’s sure if the guy next door is having an affair _From Heck_: A London constable tries to track down the devious criminal Jack the Groper _XXX-Men_: John Holmes and Ron Jeremy team up to save the world _The Cider House Rules of Engagement_: A soldier is on trial for opening fire on a New England orphanage ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/77 "2003-01-19T06:41:06Z")
Lord of the Swings: Fellowship of the Swing Frodo and Sam discover something new in the world of men, as “switch-hitting” had been unknown to them in the shire. Lord of the Swings: The Two Towers Frodo and Sam, er, figure out how switch-hitting works. Hobbits have kick-stands, it seems. Aragorn and Boromir, to the delight of slash writers everywhere, figure out what to do with that bow… Lord of the Swings: Return of the King Who knew Sauron was bisexual? ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/78 "2003-01-19T17:36:01Z")
**Planet of the Grapes** : An astronaut wakes up on a strange planet that is ruled by fruited vegetation, and all mammals are slaves. “You damn dirty grapes!” **Superficial Intelligence** : A young blonde robot girl wonders what it’s like to be a real brunette. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/79 "2003-01-19T22:21:18Z")
**In the Icy-Heet of the Night** (Sex comedy set in a retirement home) **Arsenic and Old Paste** (murder mystery in a glue factory) ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/80 "2003-01-20T04:49:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vivalostwages \* > \*\ ***Numb and Number** : A dentist takes it to extremes with two patients. \*\* [It’s been done.](http://plif.com/archive/wc078.gif) No, it isn’t the same premise. But the name’s the same. _[Mr. Smith Goes to Bananatown](http://plif.com/archive/wc102.gif)_ has also been done, just in case anyone gets any ideas. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054.md?page=5)